Re: Debian 2.0

1998-07-13 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, TooManySecrets wrote: Esto... estando como está ahora mismo el tema de la Debian 2.0... ¿se puede aventurar ahora alguna fecha de lanzamiento No sé si se podrá aventurar la fecha, sí se puede decir cuándo ocurrirá: Al menos, cuando

[wakkerma@wiggy.ml.org: Re: Debian NIS = SunOs crash ? (FWD'd)]

1998-07-13 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Tiene esto que ver con el problema que alguien más había reportado con SunOS (lo que me preocupa ahora es que acá pidieron Solaris/x86...) Marcelo---BeginMessage--- Previously Jaakko Niemi wrote: Why does NIS have to repeat the broadcast? We don't answer

Re: HTML in e-mail

1998-07-13 Thread Gerald V. Livingston lI
This is old, but I've just gotten down to about 5000 unread messages in debian-user from 9000+, reading threaded by subject g. Have one of your people send YOU an email with OutLook or NetScape that contains HTML. Chop the headers out of that and use your script to prepend the headers to

Mail Configuration

1998-07-13 Thread vaidhy
Hi, I just installed Tkrat as root, logged on as vaidhy and tried to send a mail. I got the message 550 - Permission denied. For what should I chmod to send mail as a user ? Thanks, Vaidhy -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Adding non packages to menu?

1998-07-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
I've had mixed success with this. One way is to take the name of an existing package on your system which does not have a menu and put it in /usr/lib/menu with that name. Another is to make a user-specific menu in ~/.menu and run update-menus as that user. This has worked sporadically for me.

Re: bootp log file

1998-07-13 Thread Adam Heczko
On 7/12/98, at 11:25 PM, Moshe Libenson wrote: hi, i am looking for the log file of all the bootp requests made. pls let me know where to configure the log file place (syslog.conf? how?) You can use -d[debug_level] (or sth like this, I don't remember exact syntax, use man bootpd) option when

colorize emacs in console?

1998-07-13 Thread the lone gunman
Is there any way to have the equivalent of Meta-X font-lock-mode in emacs from the console (versus X)? That is, maybe an addon package of sorts, where I can have emacs in color and not have to be in X. Especially for coding, it's nice to have the different things colorized as they are with

Re: colorize emacs in console?

1998-07-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 09:57:56PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: Is there any way to have the equivalent of Meta-X font-lock-mode in emacs from the console (versus X)? That is, maybe an addon package of sorts, where I can have emacs in color and not have to be in X. You could try Xemacs.

Exim!

1998-07-13 Thread Michael Beattie
After changing to exim, I have no idea why I used smail :) Two small problems, a) how can I get the from header rewrites to ignore local mail? b) I need some help getting procmail installed system wide.. the procmail docs have an example for smail, but none for exim. (I have RTFM, but I cant

Re: Exim!

1998-07-13 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 10:58:03PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: You do not need procmail with exim :-) Want and need are two different things... go to www.exim.org and look up the section in the documentation link about how to use exim's filters. It has the functionality of exim built-in.

Re: Exim!

1998-07-13 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 11:03:34PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: thousand procmailrc files from their users. In that case I doubt directing them all to learn a new set of filtering rules is an appropriate course to take. Er, is not an appropriate course to take. :/ -- Steve C.

Mouse not working

1998-07-13 Thread Avalon Rusk
I cannot get my mouse to work when running xbase-configure. I am running the program as root. When I get to the mouse screen, I have tried all the combinations of mouse protocols and many names (ttys0 to ttys3). I don't have the technical info on my hardware and have had difficulties

Re: *-src packages: sudo (what programs?)

1998-07-13 Thread jdassen
On Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 03:19:25PM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: What programs are needed by the *-src packages for sudo to give access to? If I understand you correctly, you want to compile source packages using sudo, and have the sudo rights restricted to only those programs that the source

Re: Daemons Ports and stuff

1998-07-13 Thread fantomas
- 1. I was checking to see what services my computer was running today with - nmap. And there was all sorts of stuff like daytime and chargen that I - don't use, so I removed all the extraneous entries in /etc/inetd.conf - (using comments), leaving only ftp and telnet. Is this okay; do I need -

Re: Exim!

1998-07-13 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 10:58:03PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: You do not need procmail with exim :-) Want and need are two different things... go to www.exim.org and look up the section in the documentation link about how to use exim's

Re: Exim! Address Qualification

1998-07-13 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote: You can prevent local addresses from being qualified by using the following syntax: receiver_unqualified_nets=127.0.0.0/255.255.255.0:your lan address/your lan subnet sender_unqualified_nets=127.0.0.0/255.255.255.0:your lan address/your lan

Re: Exim!

1998-07-13 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote: From the Exim documentation: The `pipe' transport can be used to pass all messages that require local delivery to a separate local delivery agent such as `procmail'. When doing this, care must be taken to ensure that the pipe is run under an

Re: Mouse not working

1998-07-13 Thread Christopher Barry
Hi there, Firstly I should mention that you should download and install the VGA-16 xserver so that you can just type XF86Setup to set up the mouse and everything else. That said, it sounds like you have either not compiled PS/2 mouse support into your kernel or you didn't install the module

[andrmuel@rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE: 'rm' doesn't terminat anymore]

1998-07-13 Thread Martin Schulze
- Forwarded message from Andreas Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: at Infodrom Oldenburg (/\##/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.12 Joey) by finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE from murphy.debian.org with smtp id m0yveGn-001MuLC; Mon, 13 Jul 98 10:47 MET DST

Iomega Ditto tape unreliable?

1998-07-13 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, I have been using an internal Iomega Ditto 2G tape for some time now to make backups - both in Dos and in Linux. In Dos, it works wonderfully well and efficient. However, as soon as you want to verify or restore backups made using Linux frustration starts: A lot of errors start

Size of ttfonts in Netscape?

1998-07-13 Thread Thomas Apel
I installed xfstt from slink installed some fonts and it works. But when I chose them in the Netscape preferences I can't set the size anymore. The dropdown boxes are greyed out. What's the reason for this and how can I change this? I really need to the monospace font (I use courier new) down,

Re: Web access woes

1998-07-13 Thread Ivan
The error generated by Netscape is : Warning : FTP proxy host http://proxy.vianet.net.au:80; is unknown BUT this is the correct name for the proxy server at the ISP. The same error is generated for http,gopher etc... Any more help you can give will be much appreciated. Ivan.

newbie ppp problem

1998-07-13 Thread Graham Seaman
Hi, Having problems setting up ppp. I think its actually a unix problem rather than a hardware one, but this is my first try with a Linux system so may be wrong. Here's the details anyway: I have a Sysprano internal modem with Rockwell chip set (uart is labelled RCV336ACF/SF). setserial

cirrus logic/sparklies (newbie)

1998-07-13 Thread Graham Seaman
Hi, I'm having problems setting up X which I think are due to my graphic card settings. I have what I thought was a pretty standard card which the drivers are there for. The card has a Cirrus CL-GD5446BV with 2 MB of ram. Superprobe identifies both ok. I used xf86config to set up the

[psomma@mailserver.garda-access.com: last problem when upgrading to Debian 2.0 beta]

1998-07-13 Thread Martin Schulze
- Forwarded message from Paolo Sommaruga [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: at Infodrom Oldenburg (/\##/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.12 Joey) by finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE from murphy.debian.org with smtp id m0yvg9U-001MuLC; Mon, 13 Jul 98 12:48 MET DST

Re: sound recording under linux

1998-07-13 Thread Frank Barknecht
the lone gunman hat gesagt: // the lone gunman wrote: Hello: Are there any folks out there using Linux to do sound recording? If so, what approaches have you taken? I've got a cheap hack of a sound studio on my pc -- only under windows now, though, and I'd rather do this under linux.

Re: newbie ppp problem

1998-07-13 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello! When I start 'pon', the modem beeps as if engaged but never dials a number. 'plog' reports: abort on (NO DIALTONE) send (ATDT^M) expect (my ISPs phone no) ^^ Well, it SHOULD NOT expect your IPS's phone no, but it should expect a CONNECT answer from the

Video CD player

1998-07-13 Thread Michael Beattie
Someone else has asked in conjuction with another question, but the answer, if there was one :), was lost in the throng of answers for the other question... But anyway, does anyone know of a VCD player for Linux? Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP

TV Cards.

1998-07-13 Thread Michael Beattie
There was a message a while ago refering to a KDE tv app. I have not been able to compile it on my hamm system. Has anyone else had better luck? Are there any libraries that I should install? I got the source from: ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Sources/misc/programs/kwintv-0.4.6.tgz TIA,

Re: Exim! Headers

1998-07-13 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote: It is not going to work with the system header rewrite rules. You will probably need a systemwide filter with the following logic: If the recipient is non-local then change the reply address to the ISP's domain. You might need a combination

last problem when upgrading to debian 2.0 beta

1998-07-13 Thread Paolo Sommaruga
Hi, I have upgradet to 2.0 Beta my Debian 1.1.3 system with autoup.sh adn I have followed the hints in the README-autoup.sh regarding the fixing up wtmp and utmp. The problem is that last output is yet broken, like *, ***5 ork.inet.it Thu Jan 1 01:00 still logged in

More Web Woes

1998-07-13 Thread Ivan
Hi again. I am still trying to get Netscape 4.05 (installed using the ns_install script rather than the .deb package) to accept that my ISP has a proxy server that has to be manually configured within Netscape. When I try to put the details in (edit/preferences/proxies/manual proxy/view), the

Re: More Web Woes

1998-07-13 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Ivan wrote: Hi again. I am still trying to get Netscape 4.05 (installed using the ns_install script rather than the .deb package) to accept that my ISP has a proxy server that has to be manually configured within Netscape. When I try to put the details in

Re: Iomega Ditto tape unreliable?

1998-07-13 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 10:59:29AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: A lot of errors start showing. Over the weekend I was trying to restore from a recently made backup which was made using dump. Restore ran for a few hours without restoring a single file from the selection I made and in the end

xfig not working in hamm?

1998-07-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, Is it just me or doesn't xfig in hamm do exportnig of files into .gif, .png, .xpm etc? I'm only receiving empty files. Don't need to tell ya that this suxx. Regards, Joey -- Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is only acquired just after one could have used it. --

Re: Exim!

1998-07-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 11:03:34PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: One person may want procmail, but I dare say that if an ISP installs exim after using sendmail/procmail they need it lest they break a couble thousand procmailrc files from their users. In that case I doubt directing them all to

Re: last problem when upgrading to debian 2.0 beta

1998-07-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Paolo Sommaruga wrote: Hi, I have upgradet to 2.0 Beta my Debian 1.1.3 system with autoup.sh adn I have followed the hints in the README-autoup.sh regarding the fixing up wtmp and utmp. Maybe you need to fix /var/log/lastlog as well;

Re: Web access woes

1998-07-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 06:23:17PM +0800, Ivan wrote: The error generated by Netscape is : Warning : FTP proxy host http://proxy.vianet.net.au:80; is unknown BUT this is the correct name for the proxy server at the ISP. The same error is generated for http,gopher etc... For

Thanks - any more suggestions ?

1998-07-13 Thread Ivan
At 11:28 PM 13-07-98 +1000, you wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 06:23:17PM +0800, Ivan wrote: The error generated by Netscape is : Warning : FTP proxy host http://proxy.vianet.net.au:80; is unknown BUT this is the correct name for the proxy server at the ISP. The same error is

Re: Adding non packages to menu?

1998-07-13 Thread Martin Schulze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone explain how, if at all possible, one adds non-packages to the debian menu? This is descriped in /usr/lib/menu or /usr/doc/menu. I tried making a file 'soffice' in /usr/lib/menu like so: ?package():needs=x11 command=soffice section=Apps/Editors

Re: Thanks - any more suggestions ?

1998-07-13 Thread Ivan
I haven't tried telnetting but by export http_proxy=http://proxy.vianet.net.au:80 I can reach the WWW through Lynx. The error is generated fro FTP, http, gopher,etc... I have tried entering the proxy details for all and for one at a time - the error just will not go away !!! As I have to

window manager cofiguration

1998-07-13 Thread Tom Malloy
Some window managers require you to have a mouse in a window for it to be active. Others allow you to click the mouse in the window and it stays active even if you move the mouse away. This is probably adjustable in the configuration files for each window manager. What is this feature called and

Re: Thanks - any more suggestions ?

1998-07-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 09:44:24PM +0800, Ivan wrote: I haven't tried telnetting but by export http_proxy=http://proxy.vianet.net.au:80 I can reach the WWW through Lynx. The error is generated fro FTP, http, gopher,etc... I have tried entering the proxy details for all and for one at a

Re: Thanks - any more suggestions ?

1998-07-13 Thread Ivan
At 11:47 PM 13-07-98 +1000, you wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 09:44:24PM +0800, Ivan wrote: I haven't tried telnetting but by export http_proxy=http://proxy.vianet.net.au:80 I can reach the WWW through Lynx. The error is generated fro FTP, http, gopher,etc... I have tried entering the

Re: Thanks - any more suggestions ?

1998-07-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 09:51:38PM +0800, Ivan wrote: At 11:47 PM 13-07-98 +1000, you wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 09:44:24PM +0800, Ivan wrote: I haven't tried telnetting but by export http_proxy=http://proxy.vianet.net.au:80 I can reach the WWW through Lynx. The error is generated

Re: Linux NFS question

1998-07-13 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote: I have been digging around and it looks like lockd is not supported in linux until 2.1.5? Can anyone verify this? A friend has a Linux filesystem that he wants to mount from another OS and it seems to really want to see lockd on the linux box. Is

Re: Thanks - any more suggestions ?

1998-07-13 Thread Ivan
Yes - homepage no problem - other pages BIG problem !!! Your ISP is probably blocking connections to other sites unless you use the proxy. My ISP does this too, it is cheaper for them if they get any cache hits at all. Proxy performance here is excellent so I don't mind so much. I have no

Re: last problem when upgrading to debian 2.0 beta

1998-07-13 Thread Joop Stakenborg
Paolo Sommaruga wrote: Hi, I have upgradet to 2.0 Beta my Debian 1.1.3 system with autoup.sh adn I have followed the hints in the README-autoup.sh regarding the fixing up wtmp and utmp. The problem is that last output is yet broken, like *, ***5 ork.inet.it Thu Jan 1

Re: xfig not working in hamm?

1998-07-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MS == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MS Is it just me or doesn't xfig in hamm do exportnig of files into MS .gif, .png, .xpm etc? I'm only receiving empty files. Don't MS need to tell ya that this suxx. No problem here. I just drew some objects, exported them to gif and xv showed

use *.rpm and *.tar.gz packages on Hamm

1998-07-13 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi, Debian Fans, (1) Can I use the Redhat (*.rpm) and Slackware (*.tar.gz) packages on Hamm? If can, How to? (2) I have downloaded Netscape Communicator 4.05 for Linux 2.0 from Netscape, does it will working well with Hamm? Thanks Regards, -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

Re: use *.rpm and *.tar.gz packages on Hamm

1998-07-13 Thread Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam
(1) Can I use the Redhat (*.rpm) and Slackware (*.tar.gz) packages on Hamm? If can, How to? Yeah, you can.. I suppose you have to install alien pacakge first.. (2) I have downloaded Netscape Communicator 4.05 for Linux 2.0 from Netscape, does it will working well

Re: window manager cofiguration

1998-07-13 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Tom Malloy wrote: Some window managers require you to have a mouse in a window for it to be active. Others allow you to click the mouse in the window and it stays active even if you move the mouse away. This is probably adjustable in the configuration files for each

Re: window manager cofiguration

1998-07-13 Thread Michael Stenner
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Tom Malloy wrote: Some window managers require you to have a mouse in a window for it to be active. Others allow you to click the mouse in the window and it stays active even if you move the mouse away. This is probably adjustable in the configuration files for each window

Re: window manager cofiguration

1998-07-13 Thread servis
*-Tom Malloy (13 Jul) | Some window managers require you to have a mouse in a window for it to be | active. Others allow you to click the mouse in the window and it stays | active even if you move the mouse away. This is probably adjustable in | the configuration files for each window manager.

[Debian] Intel Etherexpress Pro 82557

1998-07-13 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, can anybody tell me how to get the Intel Etherexpress Pro (82557 chipset) running. I tried the Intel Etherexpress Pro driver (which resorts under ISA?) but that doesn't seem to work. I'm using an Intel Redwood motherboard with on-board 10/100TX ethernet controller. Any help would be

Re: use *.rpm and *.tar.gz packages on Hamm

1998-07-13 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi, the alien needs the rpm and the rpm needs the libc5, (I checked these on www.debian.org/Packages) Hamm is using the libc6, Will the libc5 and libc6 happy to-gather? (1) Can I use the Redhat (*.rpm) and Slackware (*.tar.gz) packages on Hamm? If can, How to? Yeah, you can.. I

netscape communicator for bo ?

1998-07-13 Thread fantomas
Hello, I'd like to have netscape communicator for bo, there's navigator 3.04 in dist bud i couldn't install it... can anyone help me ? -- Matus fantomas Uhlar, sysadmin at NETLAB+ Kosice, Slovakia BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz -- Unsubscribe? mail

Re: netscape communicator for bo ?

1998-07-13 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: I'd like to have netscape communicator for bo, there's navigator 3.04 in dist bud i couldn't install it... can anyone help me ? netscape will not allow people to re-distibute their software. What is in the dist is a debainized (I believe)

Re: Thanks - any more suggestions ?

1998-07-13 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Ivan wrote: I haven't tried telnetting but by export http_proxy=http://proxy.vianet.net.au:80 I can reach the WWW through Lynx. technically it should be [Ukraine$] export http_proxy=http://proxy.vianet.net.au:80/; The error is generated fro FTP, http,

Re: use *.rpm and *.tar.gz packages on Hamm

1998-07-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
AK == Alex Kwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AK the alien needs the rpm and AK the rpm needs the libc5, AK (I checked these on www.debian.org/Packages) AK Hamm is using the libc6, AK Will the libc5 and libc6 happy to-gather? Yes. There is a libc5.deb for hamm in the oldlibs directory. I'd also

Re: use *.rpm and *.tar.gz packages on Hamm

1998-07-13 Thread Christopher Barry
Yes, they will be happy together. At least they are on my system, because I found the glibc Netscape was in 'development' for good reason, so I run the libc5 version. You can get libc5 in section 'oldlibs'. Alex Kwan wrote: Hi, the alien needs the rpm and the rpm needs the libc5, (I

Re: Tkdesk (was: File managers ??............)

1998-07-13 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 02:38:00PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tkdesk looks fine but I don't know how to get rid off of the icons menu which appear on the left of the screen. Nasty hack: put the following in the last line of ~/.tkdesk/AppBar: set tkdesk(appbar) {{}} ;) -- Alexey

Re: Adding non packages to menu?

1998-07-13 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 03:36:44PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone explain how, if at all possible, one adds non-packages to the debian menu? This is descriped in /usr/lib/menu or /usr/doc/menu. I tried making a file 'soffice' in /usr/lib/menu like

Re: use *.rpm and *.tar.gz packages on Hamm

1998-07-13 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 11:00:08PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: Hi, the alien needs the rpm and the rpm needs the libc5, (I checked these on www.debian.org/Packages) Hamm is using the libc6, Will the libc5 and libc6 happy to-gather? yes it works fine... hamm has kept libc5 and works fine

XF86Setup Error

1998-07-13 Thread Kevin J. Imamura
When trying to save the XF86Setup configuration, I am getting this error message just after the Attempting to start server... message: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't Connect: errno = 111 I would appreciate any help in identifying and resolving the problem. BTW, the X Server does work

Re: Ethernet Question(Repost with more info)

1998-07-13 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Everthing looks good. ARP packets are most likely what you're seeing on your hub. Can you check out your NT machine's configuration? Tomt wrote: Heres my previous message ___ Hi Everyone, I've managed to get tcp/ip networking

Re: XF86Setup Error

1998-07-13 Thread vaidhy
When trying to save the XF86Setup configuration, I am getting this error message just after the Attempting to start server... message: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't Connect: errno = 111 I had this problem and it went away after I recompiled my kernel with PSAUX.. Mmmm.. Does this

2.0 installation

1998-07-13 Thread Kenneth Valentine
Hello, I am trying to install Debian for the first time on my PC, and everything seems straightforward enough. Using the instructions for installing version 2.0, I wrote the rescue floppy and downloaded via web browser the files necessary for installation from DOS partition on a harddisk. During

Re: proxy services what is available?

1998-07-13 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I would say SOCKS is easier than TIS. I have used both but have done limited configuration and maintenance of TIS while I've done lots with SOCKS. TIS is an application level proxy while SOCKS is a socket level proxy. TIS will give you more fine-tuned control. SOCKS allows you to control access

Virtual provides?

1998-07-13 Thread Edvard Majakari
KV == Kenneth Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Using dselect is awful, because I use Qmail as my MTA. However, dselect always recommends me to install smail, or any other MTA which is understandable, and even as it is easy to press 'Q' always when it recommends smail, it is quite frustrating.

Re: Virtual provides?

1998-07-13 Thread Edvard Majakari
Oh, please ignore the first line of the message (my apologies) -- # Ed GSM: 040 5960810 URL: http://lodge.ton.tut.fi/%7Eed/ What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against? --Larry Wall in [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: use *.rpm and *.tar.gz packages on Hamm

1998-07-13 Thread David Z. Maze
Alex Kwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AK the alien needs the rpm and the rpm needs the libc5, (I AK checked these on www.debian.org/Packages) Hamm is using the libc6, AK Will the libc5 and libc6 happy to-gather? If you install the Hamm libc5 package, everything will be happy. In many cases you'll

My 'h' key is unusable

1998-07-13 Thread Stelios Parnassidis
Just had the base system installation of Hamm, and wanted to type 'which superformat'. 'h' beeps and beeps ... i have to type Ctrl-V h to use it. I looked into the /etc/terminfo/l/linux via ... (untic) could find nothing. What's wrong with my very 'h'? Heh? :( -- Unsubscribe? mail

ssh for debian

1998-07-13 Thread Robert Kerr
Is there a port of ssh for debian? If so, where is it? I'm using hamm. -bob UNIX _IS_ user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are. ** * Robert Kerr, The morphing guy. *MS 0441 Sandia National Labs * * [EMAIL

Re: ssh for debian

1998-07-13 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Robert Kerr wrote: Is there a port of ssh for debian? If so, where is it? I'm using hamm. yes there is. Try the debian-non-US directory on your ftp.debian.org mirror. Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Fujitsu 520T boot: prompt parameters ...

1998-07-13 Thread How we gonna settle this, guns or litigation? The Trail Rider
To answer my own query, RTFM suggests turning off caching. SO, Press F2 to enter SETUP, shows Memory Cache L1 and L2 Enabled, but with Memory Cache Disabled its onto installation step 1: (i.e., I cannot get to the initial choice menu of the install script). -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

killall

1998-07-13 Thread Alexander
Hi... I just downloaded (well, am downloading...) the debian 2.0 beta (hamm) release and noticed that my killall command is gone. I dug it up out of an old procps package, but why was it deleted? Can I expect it back? It's an excellent admin tool as well as program (respawn loop...) control tool,

Re: remote print-server

1998-07-13 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 06:46:37PM -0500, Greg Norris wrote: I was wondering if anyone can give me a quick rundown on what's needed to make debian a remote print-server for another unix system? We have 2 AIX boxes at work (versions 4.1 4.2), and as the unofficial administrator of our single

Re: killall

1998-07-13 Thread m*
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 10:06:29AM -0700, Alexander wrote: Hi... I just downloaded (well, am downloading...) the debian 2.0 beta (hamm) release and noticed that my killall command is gone. I dug it up out of an old procps package, but why was it deleted? Can I expect it back? It's an excellent

Re: [Debian] Intel Etherexpress Pro 82557

1998-07-13 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Howdy, can anybody tell me how to get the Intel Etherexpress Pro (82557 chipset) running. I tried the Intel Etherexpress Pro driver (which resorts under ISA?) but that doesn't seem to work. I'm using an Intel Redwood motherboard with on-board 10/100TX ethernet controller. Use the

Re: 2.0 installation

1998-07-13 Thread Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam
I think you selected 'Previously mounted partition' when it asked for the base files. Select another harddisk partition, select the partition and then the directory. I feel that the installation unmounts a partition after it uses it. Regards, Vaidhy I am trying to install Debian for the first

Mail configuration

1998-07-13 Thread Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam
Hi All, I have three small problems with my mail configuration. 1. I just set up exim with mutt and tkrat. I am able to send mail through mutt, but tkrat gives '550 Permission denied'. 2. All mails sent from my machine have From address as my machine name. Will adding return-path to muttrc

Re: ssh for debian

1998-07-13 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Is there a port of ssh for debian? If so, where is it? I'm using hamm. ftp://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Two Questions

1998-07-13 Thread Mike Harmon
Hi Everyone, I am a Debian newbie. Actually I'm ALMOST a Linux newbie. My system environment is as follows: IBM Mod 365 200 MHz Pentium Pro system (32 MB RAM) HD 0 is a 2.5 GB IDE (NT 4.0 loaded) HD1 is a 540 MB IDE (Linux) Network Card is an IBM Auto 16/4 Token Ring ISA card I'm using

Re: Virtual provides?

1998-07-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
EM == Edvard Majakari [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KV == Kenneth Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: EM I think it is not possible to create a file containing so called EM 'virtual provides', which would contain strings like 'mta, httpd, EM news-server' etc. This way, I can install Qmail on my

Re: Iomega Ditto tape unreliable?

1998-07-13 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 10:59:29AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: A lot of errors start showing. Over the weekend I was trying to restore from a recently made backup which was made using dump. Restore ran for a few hours without restoring a

Kpackage

1998-07-13 Thread ...
I'm wondering if anybody has used this program on a Hamm system. Does it adhere(sp?) to all of Debians standards? TIA, mike... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Kpackage

1998-07-13 Thread Shaleh
do you mean kernel-package? If so I have used it for a long time on both bo and hamm boxes. It is fully Debian complaint. ... wrote: I'm wondering if anybody has used this program on a Hamm system. Does it adhere(sp?) to all of Debians standards? TIA,

Re: Kpackage

1998-07-13 Thread ...
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: do you mean kernel-package? If so I have used it for a long time on both bo and hamm boxes. It is fully Debian complaint. No sorry for being unclear : I meant KPackage as in the KDE package management program. It is supposed to handle

Unknow pci device

1998-07-13 Thread anderson.fernandes
I'm having a problem with debian install disks. Although the last kernel stable version is 2.0.34, the installation disks comes with 2.0.27 that causes an error in my computer. Unknow pci device: 'address' : Read include/linux/pci.h With slackware 3.5 boot disks, the kernel version is 2.0.34 and

the time

1998-07-13 Thread David Parmet
dumb newbie question I got everything up and running (still working on X but that's another story) but when i ask for date it gives me May 25th. How do i change the date and time? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: the time

1998-07-13 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, David Parmet wrote: I got everything up and running (still working on X but that's another story) but when i ask for date it gives me May 25th. try [machine#] rdate -s your.local.time.host or adjtime or just set the bios clock to the right time :) Nikolai --

Re: the time

1998-07-13 Thread servis
*-David Parmet (13 Jul) | | dumb newbie question | | I got everything up and running (still working on X but that's another | story) but when i ask for date it gives me May 25th. | | How do i change the date and time? | %man date DATE(1)

Re: the time

1998-07-13 Thread Shaleh
Set your system BIOS correctly. David Parmet wrote: dumb newbie question I got everything up and running (still working on X but that's another story) but when i ask for date it gives me May 25th. How do i change the date and time? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL

Re: Kpackage

1998-07-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, ... wrote: No sorry for being unclear : I meant KPackage as in the KDE package management program. It is supposed to handle installation, configuration, and removel of RPM's and DEB's If all it does is install the .deb's that

Re: Unknow pci device

1998-07-13 Thread Shaleh
This is not a big problem. It will not affect you in anyway. What it means is that the PCI detection routine could not identify either your motherboard PCI controller or a device on the PCI bus. It will still work, just not have a name. Look in /proc/pci to see what I mean. This error is from

pascal.+development

1998-07-13 Thread Alexander Gutfraind
Hello fellow users! It's a weird newbie question I'm about to ask. but what about Pascal? you all seem to write in C or PERL, but I like pascal. when I checked the pascal compiler I found it required all types of libraries, libc5. but shouldn't it cause some problems to libc6? I am not an

Re: Unknow pci device

1998-07-13 Thread Michael B. Taylor
Ignore it for now. It is harmless. As you suspect, it is kernel related. Both bo and hamm have 2.0.34 kernel packages. You can select a more recent kernel later in your installation process, or compile your own. Mike On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 08:27:26PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

a simple drawing program?

1998-07-13 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Is there a simple, easily usable, drawing package that's been debianized? I really don't need anything more complicated than venn diagram type stuff. MacDraw 1.0 would more than meet my needs. I've looked at gimp, which is overkill (and annoying on an 8 bit display due to colormap demands),

Eterm path question

1998-07-13 Thread Adrian Monk
I have installed the .deb Eterm DR0.7 package, however when I fire it up in X (via an Xterm at present) I get the error messages shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories job-working-directory: same as above How do I fix this? I have tried putting

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